29 янв 1850 г. - Sarah was given as a gift to Captain Frederick E Forbes

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1850 - Sarah was given as a gift to Captain Frederick E Forbes of the Royal Navy whilst he was visiting Dahomey as an emissary of the British Government trying and help end the slave trade. Forbes convinced King Ghezo of Dahomey to give Sarah to Queen Victoria saying: “She would be a present from the King of the Blacks to the Queen of the Whites.” The young girl was given the Captains name Forbes as well as that of his ship, the ‘Bonetta’.

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